If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
